Bomb in India Kills Woman in Busy Center of Bangalore
A crude bomb exploded outside a busy restaurant in Bangalore
on Sunday, killing a woman and wounding a man, the police said.
The low-intensity blast occurred in the center of Bangalore, home to many of India’s high-tech workers and packed with Sunday evening crowds, prompting a security alert in other Indian cities.
The improvised explosive device had been placed between two flower pots near the Coconut Grove restaurant, the police said.
No one had claimed responsibility for the blast, the Bangalore police commissioner, M. N. Reddy, said.
“Essentially, it was aimed at causing panic and fear,” he told reporters.
Shrapnel
struck the head and neck of a woman, 38, who was walking past the
restaurant, and she died in a hospital shortly afterward, Commissioner
Reddy said. A man who was wounded was in stable condition.
Soon after the blast, the police were ordered on higher alert in Mumbai, Delhi and Pune, security officials said in New Delhi.
Bangalore,
also known as Bengaluru, has been on a general alert since the police
detained an engineer accused of operating a Twitter account that praised
the Islamic State extremist group.
After the arrest of the man, Mehdi Masroor Biswas, on Dec. 13, the state police received threats warning of retaliation.
